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The COVID-19 pandemic has wrought many changes in the workplace. It has decimated some businesses while increasing the demand for othersâ goods and services. It has highlighted weaknesses and inequalities and forced the adoption of new business models.
While businesses have been affected in many different ways, one thing is universal.
âThe pandemic has changed the way we do business for good,â said Aikta Marcoulier, executive director of the Pikes Peak Small Business Development Center.
The
Business Journal asked Marcoulier and other business leaders to talk about the top five trends and challenges the pandemic has presented, and how some businesses have found better ways of doing business that will persist as we move forward toward recovery.
Email compromises and hacks are serious threats to small business
SBDC: 43% of cyber attacks target small business
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The Pikes Peak Small Business Development Center is urging local business owners and employees to take cybersecurity seriously because not being prepared for a cyberattack could literally shut them down.
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COLORADO SPRINGS â Cybercriminals and fraudsters are only making things more challenging for small businesses and employees working to recover from the economic impact of the pandemic. News5 takes a deep dive into how email hacks are devastating small businesses.
If you use an email for work this is a major warning you need to know about. Cybercriminals are trying to hack into your email, or one that belongs to your boss, all to fool someone in your company into giving up information, or paying them.
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Colorado Springs Business Journal, featured Colorado Springs Mayor John Suthers; Tatiana Bailey, director of the UCCS Economic Forum; and Aikta Marcoulier director of the Pikes Peak Small Business Development Center. The panelists fielded questions about the economy, the housing and commercial real estate market, and the ongoing saga over the permanent home of U.S. Space Command.
The mayor had good news about the cityâs financial status. âAmazingly enough, the city is doing quite well,â he said. âWe certainly didnât look that way in March and April. In March, city revenues were down 14 percent. In April, they were down 23 percent. We were modelling for as much as a 30 percent decrease in city revenues â $110 to $120 million, but itâs a tremendous tribute to the resiliency of our citizens that things changed pretty dramatically. As of right now, without seeing December, weâre only a half a percent down in Gen
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Siblings from the left, Philip Aichele, 6, Selah Aichele, 9, and Abby Aichele, 10, dive for the Air O Disc during a game of Air O Sport, an inclusive game created by Colorado Springs couple Mike and Stephanie Kinner, in Colorado Springs on Dec. 3, 2020. The game combines the action of ultimate frisbee, the teamwork of basketball and the accuracy of disc golf for all ages and abilities. (Chancey Bush/The Gazette)
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